The debate on the English Revolution

by R Richardson, Roger Richardson (Editor)

Overview

The debate on the English Revolution is firmly established as an essential guide to the literature in its field and appears here in a much revised third edition. Three new chapters are included on twentieth-century historians' treatments of social complexities, politics, political culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution's unstoppable reverberations. All the other chapters have been amended and recast to take account of recent publications. The book provides a searching re-examination of why the English Revolution remains such a provocatively controversial subject and analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain its causes, course and consequences. Claredon, Hume, Macaulay, Gardiner, Tawney, Hill, and the present-day revisionists are given extended treatment, while discussion of the work of numerous other historians is integrated into a coherent, informative readable survey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719047404
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	10/29/1998
Series:	Issues in Historiography
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

R. C. Richardson is Head of History at King Alfred's UniversityCollege, Winchester. His most recent publications are Images of Oliver Cromwell (1993) and The English Civil War: Local Aspects (1997)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the characteristics of the debate;
2. The seventeenth century: the debate begins
3. The eighteenth century: the political uses of history
4. The French Revolution and English history
5. The nineteenth century: from party polemics to academic history
6. The twentieth century: the nineteenth-century inheritance and its development
7. The twentieth century: social interpretations of revolutions
8. The twentieth century: social complexities
9. The twentieth century: local and regional studies
10. The twentieth century: 'history from below'
11. The twentieth century: politics, political culture, revisionism
12. The twentieth century: reverberations
Further reading
Index

Editorial Reviews

" Dr. Richardson succeeds admirably in his attempt both to explain why the English Revolution remains so controversial a subject and to examine how and why historians have approached the subject over the past centuries." -- "Times Educational Supplement"
" ... an essential 'vademecum' for aficonadoes of the civil wars and interregnum, a motley crew, to be sure, but one united in fascination for those hurling times." -- "Literature and History"


"Dr. Richardson succeeds admirably in his attempt both to explain why the English Revolution remains so controversial a subject and to examine how and why historians have approached the subject over the past centuries." --"Times Educational Supplement"
"... an essential 'vademecum' for aficonadoes of the civil wars and interregnum, a motley crew, to be sure, but one united in fascination for those hurling times." --"Literature and History"


0;Dr. Richardson succeeds admirably in his attempt both to explain why the English Revolution remains so controversial a subject and to examine how and why historians have approached the subject over the past centuries.1; 2;"Times Educational Supplement"
0;... an essential 'vademecum' for aficonadoes of the civil wars and interregnum, a motley crew, to be sure, but one united in fascination for those hurling times.1; 2;"Literature and History"

From the Publisher

An entry and guide to the scholarship on the war over the three centuries since the guns stilled, demonstrating the conflicting views that keep the hostilities alive on the written page. Previously published in 1977 and 1988, and updated again with another decade of new material and new perspectives on earlier accounts. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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